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arcuate above, owing to the elevation of the labrum, in width about 

 one-third of the maximum diameter of the sheh ; sculpture none. 



MaTginella aphanospira. 



Size : — Alt. 3 mm. ; diam. max. 2 mm. 



Habitat : — Port Shepstone, one specimen (Burnup). 



There is also a specimen in the Capetown Museum. Mr. Burnup 

 has presented the types of the above two new species to the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Vertigo antivertigo in Staffordshire. — This mollusc has at last been turned 

 up in Staftbidshiie. On the 4th August last, Mr. Bryan and I were e.\aniiiiing 

 pieces of decayed wood and bricks, in marshy ground, at Whiston, near Clieadle, 

 when three Ver/igos were found, whicii have since been identified by Mr. J. VV. 

 Taylor, together with another specimen found since in the same locality, as V. aiiii- 

 verligo. This is the first record of the species for this county. In the same marsh 

 are to be found Zouiloides nitidns, Limiuva iriincatiila, Carychiitvi mitiimnni, and 

 Siiccinea piitiis. — John R. B. WK'i,^Y\'^\.\\{Readhel'ore the Society^ Nov. 13th, 1912). 



Helicella itala L. m. sinistrorsum. — As it is of interest to note the frequency 

 nf the occurrence of sinistral specimens, I wish to record the finding of a fine sinistral 

 Helicella itala, in September last, at Water Newton, in North Huntingdonshire. 

 The shell is full grown, and assignable to var. hitescens JMoquin-Tandon. This is 

 the prevailing form in the district, the banded shell being exceedingly scarce. — 

 C. E. Y. Kendall {Read before the Society, Nov. 13th, 191 2). 



Pathological Malformation of Keel-line in Limax cinereo-niger. —Mr. 

 Charles Oldham on the 30th September sent me a curious malformation of Limax 

 ciuercc-niger var. Inciiiosa, which he took that day in a wood near INIartin Chapel, 

 Berkhamsted, Herts., in which the pale keel-line is discontinuous in a curious 

 manner, comparable in appearance to a geological fault. Half-way down the back 

 the line ends abruptly but begins again on the right of it equally abruptly but with 

 about three rugosities of the ground-colour between. This variation can be easily 

 represented in printer's rules, thus : — 



The keel-line is very distinct and plain throughout. I have kept the example alive 

 and well ever since to 30th Nov., but then put it in formalin for deposit in the 

 Conchological .Society's collection. — W. Denison Roebuck (Read before the 

 Society, Dec. nth, 1912). 



